This Week's Anthology of Asian Woes
A wobbly government presiding over an ailing economy in Taipei, an increasingly repressive atmosphere Beijing, a city that is threatened by an encroaching desert. Add to that Richard Li's struggling corporate empire in Hong Kong. But the "interesting times" extend beyond Greater China. Bangkok is looking more and more like a haven for gangsters and even fastidious Singapore faces an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.